Tnticum.} clxxiii. gkaminb^. (J. D. Hooker.) 367 



. Sect. I. Teitictjm, proper. Olvmes keeled. 



T. VULGAKJ!, Vill.Hist. Tl. Dauph. ii. 153; Sost Oram. Austr'. iii. 18, 

 t, 26; Wall. Cat n. 2334,: Kuntk JEnum. Fl. ,i,, 43S, Sdppl. 360, t. 34; 

 T. Nees Oen. Fl. Germ. Monoc. i. t. 79 ; AUchia. Gat. Pdnjab PI. 171 . 

 T. sativnm, BG. Fl. Fr. iii. 625 ; Lam. Encycl. ii. 554; Duthie Grass. N. W. 

 Ind. 45, Fodd. Grass. JV. Iitd. 68. 



Cultivated in many parts of Northern India and the Deccan Peninsula, 

 especially in the N.W., and up to 13,000 ft. in the Himalaya and Tibet. 



It is beyond the scope of this work to detail the races of wheat, cultivated in 

 India, for which I must refer to Murray's article in Watts' " Dictionary of the Economic 

 Prodncts of India," and to Koernecke &,Werner's "Handb. der Getreide Arten," 

 ii. 209. All are believed to have been derived from T. monococcam, Linn., a native 

 of the East from Greece to Mesopotamia. Hackel, the latest botanical writer on tlib 

 wheats (in Engler & Prant. Planzenfaoi. ii. 80), regards all as referable to three 

 species, Tnonococcwm, sativum, & polonicutn, Linn, (the last is not cult, in India)'. 

 According to Murray and others the following races are cultivated in India as else- 

 where ! — T. jestivum, Linn. Sp. PI. 86 ; Sorb. PI. Ind. i. 359 ; Grah. Cat, Bomb. 

 PI. 234 ; Pals. ^ Gibs. Bonib. PI. Suppl. 97. T. amyleum, Ser. Mel. Bot. i. 124. 

 T. compactum. Host Gram. Austr. iv. 4, t. 7. T. compositum, Linn. Sp. PI. Ed. II. 

 126. T. dicoceum, Schranh. PI. Baier, i. 389. T. durum, P«af. Fl. Atlaht. i. 114 ; 

 Stewart Panjab. PL 262. T. hyhernum, Linii. Sp. PI. 80, Bo**. I. o. T. Spelta, 

 /Ann. I. c. ; Post I. c. iii. 31, t. 30. T. Zea, Host I. c. t. 29. T. turgidum, Linn. I.e. ; 

 Host. I. c. t. 28. 



Dalz. & Gibs, have also, as cultivated in the Concau, a T, inlosum, Oalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 97, the " Buckshee wheat" with tomentose spikelets. I have 

 seen no specimens of it. 



Sect. II. jUgilops. Glumes dorsally rounded, not keeled. 



T. SIg'ilops, Beauv. Agrost. 180; annual, leaves linear flat, spike 

 elongate cylindrio fragile, spikelets oblong turgid 3-5-fld. half sunk in 

 hollows of the rachis, gl. I and II similar oblong-quadrate many-nerved, 

 fl. gls. rather longer awoless or in the upper spikelets with one strict erect 

 awn. jEgilops squnrrosa, Linn. Sp. PL 1051; Tausch. in Flora, xxxix. 

 (1837) 108 ; Kunth Fnum. PI. i. 458, SuppL 371 ; Jaub. ^ Bpack. Lll. PI. 

 Or. iv. 12, t. 310 ; Schreb. Gram. ii. t. 27, f. 2 ; Gav. Ic. t. 90 ; Lcdeb. FL 

 Ross. iv. 326; Boiss. FL Orient, v. 676. M. nylindrioa, G. A. Mey. Verz. 

 PL Gauc. 26 {non Linn '). M. Tauschii, Coss. Nates Grit. 69: 



N.W. India, Falconer ; Waauristan, alt. 45C0 ft., Stewart. — Disteib. Westward 

 to Spain and N. Africa. 



Stem 6-18 in., erect or geniculatcly ascending, stiff, leafy. Leaves acuminate, 

 smooth or slightly scabrid ; sheaths smooth, upper subventricose ; lignle very short. 

 Spike li-5 in., strict ; r.ichis stout. Spikelets ^\ in., alternating in close succession ; 

 gl. I and II coriaceouF, tip truncate often crenulate; flg. gls. hardly longer, truncate 

 or retuse j awns ^li in. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



T. BEKGHALENSE, Host ex Steud. Nam. Ed. II. ii. 715. 

 ■ jEgilops CILIAEIS, Koen. ex Roem. et Sch. Syst. ii. 772 (genus lfun«saropTO«'nias) 

 = Rnttboellia ciliaris, Willd. ex St'.ud. L c. 474 {Ischce^i sp., Trin.).' 



^G. C0BDAT4, Linn., Aitch. Cat. Panjab. PL 560. 



129. AGROPVaOM, J. Qsertn. 

 Annnal or perennial grasses. Leaves flat or convolute. Spikelets 3- 

 many-fld., solitary, sessile, distiohonsly arranged opposite to hollows m the 

 rachis of a simple spike, with the sides of the glumes opposite the raohis ; 



